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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Catholic | Daily Family Prayer | Lent activities
As we move through the mid-point of Lent towards the finish line of Easter, we’ve gathered a plethora of inspiring ideas from the CatholicMom.com treasury on how to persevere in our Lenten disciples and devotions!
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Daily Family Prayer | power of prayer | pray the rosary
In 1942, a young Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, founded Family Rosary with a profound desire to spread devotion to Our Lady, to strengthen families, and to sanctify homes in his adopted land. He took to the airwaves to spread this message as far and wide as he could using the most modern means of technology then available. We could look at his early success and praise his ingenuity and perseverance, but in fact, the roots of his mission went far deeper, and were strong enough to carry him through a lifetime in service to this unique call from God.
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Daily Family Prayer | counting your blessings | pray the rosary
I routinely talk to God about my feelings in spontaneous moments throughout the day. Sometimes I am inspired by a sunrise, my garden, a special moment with my spouse, or my children’s faces to express joy in and gratitude for all I have been given, for life itself. Sometimes I am moved and saddened by the heartache I see in the world. Sometimes I am struggling with negativity and uncertainty in my own life and endeavors.
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Catholic Faith | Daily Family Prayer | family life
If your family prayer time feels more chaotic than cultivated, take heart and don't give up. Here are 24 ideas for family prayer time from Catholic moms just like you. Let's be real for a minute here. Family prayer time does not look like a scene from the St. Joseph Picture Books. Aside from the fact that no one is wearing plaid pajamas or brown bell bottoms, praying with children is not always the peaceful, angelic scene a book might depict. Most of the time I've got one kiddo chewing a wooden rosary, one hanging upside down from the couch, and one surreptitiously drawing in her notebook while my husband and I work to stay awake through decade number five.
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Daily Family Prayer | Rosary with kids | family life
Over the years my family has done many special things to celebrate the Blessed Mother with little children: Mary crowning, Mary altar, reading about Mary, making a Mary peg doll ... and this year we are going to try a Marian terrarium, only because we do not have a place for a garden. However, the most important bit about celebrating Mary in May is attempting to pray the Rosary daily together as a family.
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Daily Family Prayer | power of prayer | praying for your family
I’ve had the privilege of spending the last seven weeks participating in a prayer group called "Invitation to Personal Prayer." I knew I had a prayer life, but honestly, I’ve spent so many of the last survival parenting years as a “desperate” pray-er, (if that’s a word). My morning prayer times came seldom and far between, because I couldn’t get up any earlier than my children, so my prayers came during the day in small desperate pleas for the Lord to help me put out whatever fire was currently underway.
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